School Strike 4 Climate Australia
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Aus school students striking & organising to demand real action on the climate crisis 🌏🪧✊🔥⏳🌳 Authorised by Cam Walker, Friends of the Earth, Collingwood.
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THOUSANDS of school students walked out of school today across Australia to send a message to the Labor Government: SHIFT THE POWER away from dirty coal and gas companies!! 🌱✊🌏🪧 #ClimateStrike #ShiftThePower
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"Symptoms include increased anxiety from the Federal Government's climate policy inaction": @StrikeClimate students take a sick day for a sick planet. Next weekend Nov 25/26 they'll co-host the #peoplesblockade in Newcastle. Join us to #ShiftThePower ! https://t.co/1ruHnf3urT
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Thousands of Australian children are skipping school today to protest against government inaction on climate change as part of School Strike 4 Climate|@StrikeClimate #ShiftThePower #ClimateStrike
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Students calling for climate justice on Sydney streets today. They might have missed a day of school but outside Minister of Environment Tanya Plibersek office they educated her about the impact climate change is having on them, their families and their lands.
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Nannas marched with school students today as they took a day off to stage climate protest.
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Hundreds of students are demanding for stronger climate action in Sydney today. They are matching to Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s office
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Thousands of students across the country have abandoned the classroom, as part of national action on climate change. The coordinated day of protest was aimed at pressuring governments to do more to tackle global warming | @BaumgartelSteph @StrikeClimate #AUSPOL
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“Plibersek has got to go” Fantastic energy at the school climate strike today. Students marching out of school and onto the streets to demand an end to fossil fuels, a just transition for workers and First Nations rights. Currently sitting in outside Tanya Plibersek’s office.
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Melbourne streets filled with school strikers demanding a safe climate + future! 💪💪 #ss4c #ShiftThePower
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As Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill talks onstage at Premier @RogerCookMLA’s Energy Transition Summit right now, WA school kids are marching the streets of Perth. They’re protesting Woodside’s aggressive gas expansion plans. They’re demanding a safe climate future which means no new gas.
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On the other side of the continent, @StrikeClimate schoolkids and supporters from @RisingTideAus and @knitnannasSYD sat down outside @tanya_plibersek 's office. Today's lesson: no new coal oil or gas! #ShiftThePower #peoplesblockade
https://t.co/1ruHnf3urT
As Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill talks onstage at Premier @RogerCookMLA’s Energy Transition Summit right now, WA school kids are marching the streets of Perth. They’re protesting Woodside’s aggressive gas expansion plans. They’re demanding a safe climate future which means no new gas.
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"The day the Australian government stops burning my future is the day I’ll stop protesting." - Western Sydney student Jeremy Phu Howard, who is participating in today's School Strike 4 Climate @StrikeClimate #SS4C #AusPol
https://t.co/boxAr1GNyw
theguardian.com
I used to believe I had no real say in what our government did. But eventually I realised that that simply wasn’t true
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Sit down #climateStrike on Latrobe St bridge. School children take action. #fightThePower #auspol #ClimateEmergency
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“fossil fuel representatives ... these aren’t the people who have the best interests of the community or the future of people like me, yet they hold all the power to make the decisions.” Emma Heyink, Margret River and WA School Striker https://t.co/Ca5ASrEDJG
watoday.com.au
The protest is the WA iteration of the National Schools Strike 4 Climate and will be the fifth year Australian students have wagged school to demand governments end coal and gas projects.
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“We’re inching towards the point of no return and the government’s watching the Earth dying and still not doing anything,” Min Park, Sydney School Striker
theguardian.com
Scientists sign note citing ‘elevated stress’ and ‘feelings of despair’ over climate crisis as thousands of students expected to strike
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This friday: National climate strike. @StrikeClimate has organised actions around the country. 'We are STRIKING to demand Albanese and Plibersek #ShiftThePower away from fossil fuels!' https://t.co/HreIVNfcqB
foe.org.au
Friends of the Earth Australia (FoEA) believes that social and environmental issues cannot be separated from each other. As a result, FoEA is a social and environmental justice organisation. We seek...
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TOMORROW WE STRIKE TO DEMAND LABOR #SHIFTTHEPOWER! ✊🌏🌱🪧 Find your nearest strike here
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When approving new coal and gas Australia’s environment ministers have failed to take into account the biggest threat of all: climate change.🌍🌧️🌪️ The #LivingWonders case challenges that: https://t.co/SuXcbYP73R 📢Take action: https://t.co/9O7kDngijc
#LivingWondersClimateCases
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